[libvirt] [PATCH tck 0/6] Fix tests which need a full OS image

[Mike Latimer]

On Friday, March 28, 2014 12:26:26 PM Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> A bunch of tests currently attempt to kickstart a full Fedora
> OS image install. Everytime I try to update this kickstart to
> a new version of Fedora it causes no end of pain. Switch the
> tests over to use Richard Jones' virt-builder command which
> is part of libguestfs. This makes it trivial to deploy and
> customize full OS images from pre-built templates.
> 
> Mike - does Suse include a new enough version of libguestfs
> to get access to the 'virt-builder' tool yet ?

Yes - in openSUSE 13.1 and the upcoming SLE-12 we do have virt-builder. You 
are completely right about these tests being rather painful. We have some 
local modifications that use autoyast to install a openSUSE 12.3 guest. This 
works, but is not without complication. Switching to an openSUSE 13.1 guest 
solves some issues and introduces others (just for the installation itself). 
For the machines I'm immediately testing with, I hacked through the issues and 
created a static 13.1 image that I deploy as part of my provisioning. ;)

I probably won't get to testing these changes today. If not, I'll go through 
them on Monday. (When I do, I'll think about adding some type of option to 
choose between guest types, rather than maintaining a local patch which 
replaces Fedora with SUSE.)

Thanks for doing this, btw. This was next on my list of things to deal with as 
well!

-Mike